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Insight: Canada's jailhouse secret: Legally innocent prisoners are dying

By Anna Mehler Paperny

 

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The quad outdoor area at the Winnipeg Remand Centre, a pre-trial detention centre pictured in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in this handout photo obtained by Reuters May 10, 2017. Manitoba Government/Handout via REUTERS/Files

     

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Nearly 270 people have died in Canadian provincial jails over the past five years. Two-thirds of them were legally innocent.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996561-insight canadas-jailhouse-secret-legally-innocent-prisoners-are-dying/

     

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    Cuba says investigating 'incidents' concerning U.S. diplomats in Havana

    By Yeganeh Torbati and Sarah Marsh

     

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    An exterior view of the U.S. Embassy is seen in Havana, Cuba, June 19, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

     

    WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Wednesday it was investigating allegations by the United States that unspecified "incidents" caused physical symptoms in Americans serving at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, after two Washington-based Cuban diplomats were expelled.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996562-cuba-says-investigating-incidents-concerning-us-diplomats-in-havana/

     

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    Berlin threatens action in Vietnam kidnap case as demand not met

     

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    An image of Vietnamese former oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh is seen on a TV screen on state-run television VTV, saying he turns himself in at a police station in Hanoi, Vietnam August 3, 2017. REUTERS/Kham

     

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said on Wednesday it was considering what steps to take after Vietnam failed to respond to its demand to return a former oil executive believed by Berlin to have been kidnapped by Vietnamese agents.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996567-berlin-threatens-action-in-vietnam-kidnap-case-as-demand-not-met/

     

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    North Korea releases jailed Canadian pastor amid standoff with U.S.

    By Soyoung Kim and Hyungwon Kang

     

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    South Korea-born Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim stands during his trial at a North Korean court in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, North Korea on December 16, 2015. REUTERS/KCNA/Files

     

    SEOUL/TORONTO (Reuters) - North Korea freed a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence on humanitarian grounds, the official KCNA news agency said on Wednesday, just hours after the United States warned it would counter any threat from the North with "fire and fury."

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996569-north-korea-releases-jailed-canadian-pastor-amid-standoff-with-us/

     

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    Crocodile rock: ancient beast named after Motörhead band's Lemmy

    By Will Dunham

     

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    A life reconstruction of Lemmysuchus by Mark Witton is shown in this handout photo of the artist's depiction taken April 7, 2017. The reconstruction contains details relating to Motörhead, with the pattern on the head having been based on the Snaggletooth logo. Courtesy Mark Witton/Trustees of the NHM, London/Handout via REUTERS

     

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A ferocious sea-going crocodile that menaced coastal waters about 164 million years ago during the Jurassic Period has been given a name honoring the similarly ferocious heavy-metal rocker Lemmy, the late front man for the British band Motörhead.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996573-crocodile-rock-ancient-beast-named-after-motörhead-bands-lemmy/

     

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    India's booming massage parlours drive demand for Thai sex slaves

    Roli Srivastava - Thomson Reuters Foundation

     

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    MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The booming spa and massage parlour business in India has led to increasing demand for women from Thailand, many of whom are being duped and trafficked into slavery in the country's sex industry, police, diplomats and activists said on Wednesday.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996575-indias-booming-massage-parlours-drive-demand-for-thai-sex-slaves/

     

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    BMA to open new 100-rai park in Bang Bon district

    By The Nation

     

    The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to open a new 100-rai park in Bang Bon district in December. Deputy BMA governor Chakkraphan Phiewngarm said the city administration has leased a plot of 100 rai from the Crown Property Bureau to develop the park on Soi 82 off Rama II Road.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996577-bma-to-open-new-100-rai-park-in-bang-bon-district/

     

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    Vietnamese man with rhino horn arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport

    By The Nation

     

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    BANGKOK: -- Officials at Suvarnabhumi Airport's wildlife checkpoint apprehended a Vietnamese passenger who was bound for Luang Prabang in northern Laos along with a rhino horn which had been cut into five pieces on Tuesday afternoon. 

     

    Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996585-vietnamese-man-with-rhino-horn-arrested-at-suvarnabhumi-airport/

     

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    Only in Thailand? Student in minivan on way home from school dangles his legs out the back

     

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    LAMPANG: -- Daily News reported on dash cam footage posted to Facebook that showed a student sitting on the back step of a minivan on the way home from school in Lampang.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996587-only-in-thailand-student-in-minivan-on-way-home-from-school-dangles his-legs-out-the-back/

     

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    Facebook makes new bid for TV viewers with expanded video

    BY REUTERS

     

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    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Wednesday made its biggest move to date to compete in the television market by expanding its video offerings with programming ranging from professional women’s basketball to a safari show and a parenting program.

     

    Full story: http://tech.thaivisa.com/facebook-makes-new-bid-tv-viewers-expanded-video/23498/ 

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    Myanmar woman, 20, found murdered in Phuket room

    Eakkapop Thongtub

     

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    Police inspect the room of female Myanmar national Thida Mo,20. Photo: Sayan Thammaphan

     

    PHUKET: -- Chalong Police are currently investigating what they say is the murder of a 20-year-old female Myanmar national who was found dead in a room in Rawai early this morning.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996588-myanmar-woman-20-found-murdered-in-phuket-room/

     

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    Ex-monk charged with murder for slaying boy, 17, at Phuket temple

    Eakkapop Thongtub

     

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    Police inspect the scene of the brutal slaying at the temple in central Phuket on Saturday (Aug 5). Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

     

    PHUKET: -- A monk defrocked and held on drugs charges now also has been charged for the murder of a 17-year-old monk’s assistant at a Phuket temple last Saturday (Aug 5).

     

    Full story:  https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996590-ex-monk-charged-with-murder-for-slaying-boy-17-at-phuket-temple/

     

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    Press freedom? Thai reporter hauled in for questioning after former top cop's wife accuses him of trespass

     

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    BANGKOK: -- A reporter sent to investigate the financial dealings of a real estate business connected to the former head of police has been arrested after complaints were made by the ex top cop's wife.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996591-press-freedom-thai-reporter-hauled-in-for-questioning-after-former top-cops-wife-accuses-him-of-trespass/

     

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    Immigration Bureau clears up confusion over termination of Immigration 6 form

     

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    BANGKOK, 10 August 2017 (NNT) – The Immigration Bureau has pointed out that there has been a misunderstanding over news the Prime Minister signed the cancellation of the Immigration 6 card, explaining that the stoppage was to pave the way for a new form to be introduced in October. 

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996531-move-to-exempt-thais-from-immigration-form/?do=findComment&comment=12166929

     

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    What a load of cobras! Seven arrested in raid on endangered species' restaurant in downtown Bangkok

     

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    BANGKOK: -- A contingent of  20 police led by 191 chief Surachet Hakpan and wildlife protection authorities raided a Chinese restaurant in Bangkok yesterday.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996606-what-a-load-of-cobras-seven-arrested-in-raid-on-endangered-species-restaurant-in-downtown-bangkok/

     

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    Well known lawyer moans about Thais being mean to Thais in airport face cream rant

     

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    BANGKOK: -- A well known Thai lawyer went on his Facebook page to slam officials at Don Muang airport for not allowing him to take two tubes of face cream on a flight to Chiang Rai.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996612-well-known-lawyer-moans-about-thais-being-mean-to-thais-in-airport face-cream-rant/

     

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    Peru fears Venezuela headed toward civil war - foreign minister

    By Mitra Taj and Marco Aquino

     

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    Peru's Foreign Affair Minister Ricardo Luna talks to Reuters during an interview in Lima, Peru, August 9, 2017. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo

     

    LIMA (Reuters) - Peru fears Venezuela may be headed toward civil war as a political crisis deepens and its economy implodes under the rule of socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Peru's foreign minister told Reuters on Wednesday.

     

    Full story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/996614-peru-fears-venezuela-headed-toward-civil-war-foreign-minister/

     

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